Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. editor of "The New Monthly Magazine" / by E. Bulwer Lytton.

  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. editor of "The New Monthly Magazine" / by E. Bulwer Lytton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    breeze, to grow epicures in the simple regimen, to become cased in armour against the vicissitudes of our changeful skies—to feel, and to shake off, light sleep as a blessed dew, let them, while the organs are yet sound, and the nerves yet unshattered, devote an autumn to the water- cure. And you, 0 parents ! who, too indolent, too much slaves to custom, to endure change for yourselves, to re- nounce for awhile your artificial natures, but who still covet for your children hardy constitutions, pure tastes, and abstemious habits—who wish to see them grow up with a manly disdain of luxury—with a vigorous in- difference to climate—with a full sense of the value of health. Hot alone for itself, but for the powers it elicits, and the virtues with which it is intimately connected— the serene, unfretful temper—the pleasure in innocent delights—the well-being that, content with self, expands in benevolence to others—you I adjure not to scorn the facile process of which I solicit the experiment. Dip your young heroes in the spring, and hold them not back by the heel. May my exhortations find believing listeners, and may some, now unknown to me, write me word from the green lulls of Malvern, or the groves of Petersham, We have hearkened to you—not in vain. Adieu, Mr. Editor, the ghost returns to silence. E. BuLWER Lytton. T. C. SaviU, Printer, 4, Cbandos-street, Covent-garden.